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Following the recent history-making visit by President Barack Obama to the island nation of Cuba (the first by a sitting U.S. president since 1928) in which the American lectured Cubans on the need to be more accommodating of U.S.-style capitalism, Cuba’s longtime Revolutionary socialist leader Fidel Castro has authored a 1,500+ word rebuttal in the country’s premier newspaper, Granma. Below it is reprinted in its entirety.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of…

Our little cinema and theatre projects are tiny, tiny, compared to the enormous threats to the world. But one continues one’s life, nonetheless. I thank heaven for the child that’s still in me. I love freshness, the surprise of waking up alive every morning, the wonderment of simple things. This still exists, despite our stubborn, insolent attempts to destroy this beautiful, beautiful planet.